Berwyn Fire Department responded to Morton West High School responded about 3:00 p.m. Friday September 22, 2017 to a report that a student was suffering from “heat related illness.” While paramedics were on the scene treating that student, another student had heat-related problems, and then multiple students experienced either heat exhaustion or dehydration. With multiple […]

Cook County Forest Preserves K-9 “Drago” died Wednesday June 14, 2017 while locked in a patrol car, and apparently from complications caused by heat exposure, Cook County officials report. The K-9 police dog is believed to have been left unattended in the forest preserve police car while the officer processed an alleged suspect at the […]

McHenry County Sheriff’s deputies and McHenry Township FPD firefighter/paramedics responded Tuesday afternoon July 19, 2016 to Holly Ct in unincorporated McHenry to a report that a 4-year-old girl was found unresponsive with heat-related illness in her family’s car. The girl had entered the car without anyone’s knowledge, after she overheard a family discussion about going […]

Elk Grove Village police and firefighter/paramedics responded about 4:18 PM Wednesday to a well-being check for two children left in a car in the heat at Elk Grove Woods Plaza 45 South Arlington Heights Rd Elk Grove Village, IL. Police rescued two children from a car, but report they the children had no signs of […]

A blazing heat wave sent the mercury soaring in California, Arizona and other parts of the West. The temperature was expected to reach nearly 120 degrees in Phoenix and Las Vegas. (June 28) LAS VEGAS High temperatures brought dangerous heat to much of the Southwest on Sunday as many parts of the region were coming […]

Palatine firefighter/paramedics and Arlington Heights firefighter/paramedics responded about 1:47 p.m. and 1:54 p.m. Thursday to Palatine High School, 1111 North Rohlwing Road for two calls for help within ten minutes — a medical call and medical call related to heat illness. No confirmation on whether the first call was also related to heat. Weather observations […]

As a record heat wave sweeps across the South, high school football has been hard hit with one heat-related tragedy after another. Experts say these injuries are not part of the game and are 100% preventable. Exposure to heat is the largest weather-related killer nationwide.

View Larger Map After collapsing in a half marathon, Zachary Gregory, 22, was transported from the 7500 block of S. South Shore Drive to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 9:52 a.m. Saturday, June 4, 2011. Zach Taylor was a licensed physical therapist with a Doctor of Physical Therapy […]

Jurors heard opening arguments Tuesday in the trial of a self-help guru whose sweat lodge ceremony turned deadly in October, 2009. James Arthur Ray is facing three manslaughter charges after three people died due to the ceremony’s extreme heat. James Arthur Ray’s defense attorney Luis Li claimed law enforcement never followed up on reports that […]

Monday - Partly cloudy. Blustery. Highs from around 40 along the lake to the mid 40s well inland. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph in the morning increasing to 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 30 mph in the afternoon.